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Ok, I did have one too many beers when I wrote that.......Wait, that sounds like something Wolph would say.....OMG, take me out back and shoot me..

TBH, Starters shouldn't be getting run in scrimmages.

You're right, Ookawa sucks vs our other guys. But show me someone his age or younger that's as good. The issue is our team is aging.

Good feedback on scrimmages, I can mix it up more.

Impressive that we are in the good half of Asia.

Very limited supply of bigs for Nippon.

Kouzo Yasujiro 31 ex-Swoosh
Takayoshi Kishita 29 ex-Sashiogi Heaven current Kyoto Shogun
Katsurou Matsumoto 30 Northern Kyushu Ramen Kings
Eita Wakatsuki 30 Kyoto Shogun
Katsu Ookawa 28 9 different owners lol
Tohru Asano 32 Kitakyushu
Itaru Takasugi 29 7 owners lol
Ichiro Nishimura 28 Kyoto Shogun worst big on roster but still getting trained at least.

Looking at Ookawa
Jump Shot: average Jump Range: atrocious
Outside Def.: pitiful Handling: inept
Driving: awful Passing: pitiful
Inside Shot: marvelous Inside Def.: prodigious
Rebounding: prodigious Shot Blocking: tremendous

Take out the SB and add more secondaries & you could make a player like that by age 22 & maybe with as low as perennial allstar potential & certainly no higher than superstar.

Look at this guy on the TL right now.

Meng Xingmin (30737161)
Center
Owner: heeringas
Weekly salary: $ 104 870
Role: rotation player
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DMI: 734600
Age: 22
Height: 6'11" / 211 cm
Potential: superstar
Game Shape: strong
Jump Shot: strong Jump Range: atrocious
Outside Def.: average Handling: respectable
Driving: respectable Passing: pitiful
Inside Shot: marvelous Inside Def.: marvelous
Rebounding: prodigious Shot Blocking: prominent
Stamina: atrocious Free Throw: atrocious

I have my 3 guards Ko Maruya (18 Superstar), Kazushi Miyakawa (18 perennial allstar) & Tetsuo Soma (19 star still looking for a beter 3rd) that I am training. We need someone to get onto the next generation of bigs. From the NT list you can see that while OS teams like Nippon players they dont train them very well.

On the U21 team we have

Fumitake Nakata (33169491)
Weekly salary: $ 16 570
DMI: 265400
Age: 21
Height: 6'10" / 208 cm
Potential: superstar


Yuya Akimoto (33169496)
Weekly salary: $ 9 279
DMI: 60400
Age: 20
Height: 6'10" / 208 cm
Potential: MVP

as well of a bunch of guys with allstar potential, 5k salaries and in pitiful GS lol.

Maybe Brutus you should contact their owners & tell them they could have the next NT bigs on their hands and discuss their training.

Just bought Ookawa back, sold him by mistake some weeks ago. I like a NT (or two) in my team, that's why I bought him back. He will play, he will be trained for two more seasons with the other guys. I know, he's old and get the skills up isn't that easy, but as he fill one of my training position anyway, he will get some kicks.

If it'll help the NT a bit let me know what will be the most helpful skill to be trained. I have a LV 6 trainer and it will be double position training. As we have the posibilities to train outside skills over playing inside I'll do that. That's all I have to offer until he will be dropped from NT.

Cheers

Good post - ball for you. The point you raise about the limited crop of bigs behind our strong current players is very important, and we'd do well to address it.

I have my 3 guards Ko Maruya (18 Superstar), Kazushi Miyakawa (18 perennial allstar) & Tetsuo Soma (19 star still looking for a beter 3rd) that I am training. We need someone to get onto the next generation of bigs. From the NT list you can see that while OS teams like Nippon players they dont train them very well.

Currently I'm training Torii (25yo MVP), Tomioka (22yo Superstar) and Mori (18yo PA). All guards, and I drafted all three. I have high hopes for Torii & Tomioka, but Mori's not great - at best he'll be a solid-ish back-up in the JBBL. If I land a better player in the draft, I'll sell Mori... but it is what it is. That said, I'll lean towards bigs for my next draft set.
I'll never have another non-Japanese trainee, and I'm TRYING to emulate Toranaga and go local as much as possible for my roster (timing's precluded a total one!).

Last edited by malice at 11/21/2014 9:18:37 PM

Sorry, was traveling. Let me give a little more of an explanation now that I'm back. This is related to a conversation we had during the election about the future state of our bigs.

Basically we have no future bigs 22 and above and we're hoping for something to come out of U21 soon. Our core bigs are 30/31 and there are no developmental players at National Team age. We are facing a situation where in 3-4 seasons we're going to have a big drop off when our starters start to decline.

Before the season started I sought to find some bridge players that would play after the current starters are no good but carry us until we can get new players developed. The options weren't great but I added Nishimura, Ookawa, Takasugi. Nishimura and Takasugi are OK. Ookawa is extremely mono-skilled and I really hesitated to add him. But there is a huge drop off after that and if these players get fired by their teams then we have nothing. So putting them on the NT roster is protecting our future, somewhat.

On Motoori, It's not the he's not better than Ookawa, he certainly is. It's his age and relative quality vs our core guys. Basically at 31 he will never see real playing time for us. We have 5 bigs aged 29-32 that are ahead of him, so I'm not going to use a roster spot on him.

I will contact the two guys pointed out on the U21 roster.